Word: exoticized
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A veggie-slicing galoot from Delhi goes to China to realize his destiny as a martial-arts master - and just from the synopsis, I'm on board with Chandni Chowk to China. For, as any video nerd-historian will tell you, the two most exciting foreign movie industries of the...
The numbers are telling. At the domestic box office, this no-star drama has already earned more than $34 million - about double the cumulative take of three Golden Globe winners from last year (La Vie en Rose, Julie Christie as an Alzheimer's sufferer in Away from Her and Cate...
One urban legend about Peruvian soprano Yma Sumac, 86, was that she was really Amy Camus (spelled backwards) from Brooklyn; another was that she had a five-octave range. Neither was true, but Sumac's unusual voice and multinational repertoire made her a popular 50s curio. She was an exotic...
If architecture is frozen music, as Goethe aphorized, then jazz is Art Deco on ice. France adored that American musical invention and especially Josephine Baker, the black American singer and dancer who electrified the Paris jazz scene in the 1920s. Her sleek, exotic beauty is on display in Art Deco...
After studying the exotic wildlife of the Galápagos Islands, Charles Darwin surmised that animals can develop unique traits when they evolve in isolation. In the tennis world, Rafael Nadal is such an animal. Based on the island of Majorca, Nadal and his family shunned mainstream training programs as...